Jack-a-lynn

Cold aeroplanes, slow boats, warm trains

Remind me of jack-a-lynn.

Lush hotels and pretty girls

Won't cheer the misty mood i'm in.

Silly, sad --- i've never had to write this before ---

Oh, jack-a-lynn.



Funny how long nights allow

Thoughts of jack-a-lynn.

When phantoms tread around my bed

To offer restless dreams they bring.

And it's just the time and place to find

A sad song to play

For jack-a-lynn.



Magpies that shriek, old boots that leak

Call me to jack-a-lynn.

Coal-black cats in policeman's hats

Nosing where the mice have been.

And the long miaow's beginning now

And i'm far, far from home ---

And jack-a-lynn.


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